Iran

[Undertoad]

This should be reported by the main stream media

It's a mixed bag... I listened to a liberal Iranian expat with friends and family in the nation, who said:

A) When Soleimani is on a "peace mission", it's just an extension of war elsewhere. If it makes sense to make allies in war, then that will happen. The name of the "Quds" force, in Arabic, is "Jerusalem", meaning that is their end goal.

B) Iraq's government is basically an Iranian puppet now, as Iranian forces move into areas and literally tell people who to vote for.

C) Trump including cultural targets was a huge mis-step, because it gave the cultural nationalists ("Make Persia Great Again") a connection with the religious nationalists ("Keep the Shia Crescent Shia And Expand It"), when they are not brothers in arms. The religious nationalists could basically say, "See, they don't just intend to kill us and change the government, they want to destroy everything."

~ Note, that's just one Iranian expat's opinion ~